Bug#1089677: ITP: pay-respects -- Command suggestions, command-not-found and thefuck replacement written in Rust

2024-12-10 Thread Don Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Don Xu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pay-respects Version : 0.6.3 Upstream Contact: * URL : https://github.com/iffse/pay-respects * License : AGPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Rust Description

Bug#1089674: ITP: lightspark -- Lightspark is an LGPLv3 licensed Flash player and browser plugin written in C++/C

2024-12-10 Thread Don Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Don Xu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : lightspark Version : 0.8.7 Upstream Contact: Alessandro Pignotti * URL : https://lightspark.github.io/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Lightspark is an

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann a écrit : > > The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think > e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asynchronous nature > did cause me a lot of extra pointless work when I was an outsider > attempting t

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2024-12-11 10:04:44 +0900 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: [...] > is there an easy way to determine for a given Unicode string if it > can be typed from a single keboard layout [...] Do keyboards with a "compose" key count? There's plenty of glyphs I can type which aren't depicted directly on my

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, sorry if it is too naive, but is there an easy way to determine for a given Unicode string if it can be typed from a single keboard layout or produced by a text-to-speech system? People who want a username because of SSH, email and su will want to be able to input it. On the oth

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Xiyue" == Xiyue Deng writes: Xiyue> Thanks for your input! For sure if what-you-suggest happens Xiyue> on a regular basis it would be great. I am just hoping to Xiyue> let perspective DD sponsors have less concerns that we as Xiyue> sponsees don't necessarily want to take

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:13:08 -0500, "Theodore Ts'o" >Yeah, good point. If the scope is going to include passwd entries >that are distributed via network protocols like LDAP, then we need to >worry about sites that support other Linux distributions beyond just >Debian --- or for that matter, sites

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 05:51:37PM +0800 schrieb Sean Whitton: > It doesn't seem good for Debian, or the sponsee, for the DD to sponsor > it through NEW and then leave the sponsee in limbo. Definitely. Finding a sponsor for the first upload but not for the subsequent source-only upload might be s

Bug#1089660: ITP: guile-fibers -- Guile library with facility to provide Go-like concurrency

2024-12-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: guile-fibers Version : 1.3.1-1 Upstream Author : Andy Wingo, et al * URL : https://github.com/wingo/fibers * License : LGPLv3+ Programming Lang: Guile Description : Guile library wi

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I would involve cross-distribution discussion about this though. > Perhaps the /etc/passwd APIs affect some POSIX specifications, and a > non-ASCII extension could be proposed. Yeah, good point. If the scope is going to include pa

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Theodore Ts'o" writes: > However, it should be noted that RFC 8264 also states that code points > which are not defined in whatever version of the Unicode supported by > "the application" shall be disallowed. From Debian's perspective, > though, if we are going to take a position about what ver

Bug#1089651: ITP: qcom-firmware-extract -- Extract Qualcomm firmware from Windows partition

2024-12-10 Thread Tobias Heider
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Heider X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: qcom-firmware-extract Upstream Authors: Tobias Heider URL : https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-concept/ubuntu/+source/qcom-firmware-extract/ * License : G

Bug#1089643: ITP: bobdude -- Software for programming B·O·B·3 robots

2024-12-10 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bobdude Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Contact: Nils Springob https://www.bob3.org/de/details/software * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : S

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 02:52:05PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > NFC has been mentioned in a broader discussion on PRECIS/RFC8264/RFC8265. > > The IdentifierClass of RFC 8264 explicitly disallows all these "security > land mines": https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8264.html#section-4.2.3 > > T

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:10:14 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: >To me, the question is more, why do we have a flag that, if used, >allows you to break /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow} completely? The user-oriented solution would be to identify the things that break /etc/passwd and to forbid thes

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 08:59:23AM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. > > There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might > > deviate from default settings. > > > > Greetings  > > > > /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null > > 7,22,37,52

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hi, 在 2024-12-10二的 10:49 +0100,Alexandre Detiste写道: > Hi, > > Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. > There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might deviate > from default settings. > > Greetings  > > /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null > 7,22,37,52 * * * *  > > h

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:18:06 +0100, Gard Spreemann > wrote: >>The BTS is core to Debian. > > And it is one of the best Bugtrackers I have ever encountered. I agree. > It could be faster, yes, but its features trump the waiting time by > far. Without knowing anything abou

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 10/12/24 13:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 09:39:03PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: NFC would solve both of these "problems": * Both U+00E9 (é) and U+0065, U+0301 are NFC-normalized to U+00E9, * Both U+2126 (Ohm sign) and U+0349 (omega) are NFC-normalized to U+0349 (omega)

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 09/12/2024 16:49, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:03:36AM -0600 schrieb rhys: It's not the sort of thing that needs to be strictly updated like a man page or other technical document. It just needs to be a couple of pages that describe the "general" (big picture structure an

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:18:06 +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >The BTS is core to Debian. And it is one of the best Bugtrackers I have ever encountered. It could be faster, yes, but its features trump the waiting time by far. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 09:39:03PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > NFC would solve both of these "problems": > > * Both U+00E9 (é) and U+0065, U+0301 are NFC-normalized to U+00E9, > * Both U+2126 (Ohm sign) and U+0349 (omega) are NFC-normalized to U+0349 > (omega). > > What NFC alone will not so

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [241209 21:21]: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 18:08:33 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler > wrote: > >I echo Alejandro's concerns. We should stop having the flag > >completely, not encourage using it. > > I violently disagree. But I have to accept this. > > >IOW: if we move towards better character

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi Sean, Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 03:58pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> These are valid concerns. I think the tooling from Phil should help >> with your point 2 and 3. For 4-6, I personally never expect the same DD >> would provide long-term support after sponsorin

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 03:58pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote: > These are valid concerns. I think the tooling from Phil should help > with your point 2 and 3. For 4-6, I personally never expect the same DD > would provide long-term support after sponsoring. Maybe making that > clear on the Debia

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 01:58pm +05, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with >> (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point >> that seemingly hasn't

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might deviate from default settings. Greetings /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null 7,22,37,52 * * * * https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debian/debian/crontab Le mar. 10 déc. 202

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with >> (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point >> that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: >> >> The BTS is cor

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-10 Thread Phil Wyett
On Tue, 2024-12-10 at 00:35 -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Phil Wyett writes: > > > > [..snip..] > > > > Morning Xiyue and all, > > > > Xiyue mentions tooling after Sam raised an issue. > > > > Xiyue, Many thanks for entering this conversation as I feel you are an ideal > > person (t

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with > (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point > that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: > > The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-10 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi Phil, Phil Wyett writes: > > [..snip..] > > Morning Xiyue and all, > > Xiyue mentions tooling after Sam raised an issue. > > Xiyue, Many thanks for entering this conversation as I feel you are an ideal > person (through our many interactions) to detail/discuss what you feel mentors > is, is n

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asy